There's Good Reason to Fear US

[muchacho]

There's Good Reason to Fear US
by Noam Chomsky

Amid the aftershocks of recent suicide bombings in Baghdad and Najaf, and countless other horrors since Sept. 11, 2001, it is easy to understand why many believe that the world has entered a new and frightening "age of terror," the title of a recent collection of essays by Yale University scholars and others.


However, two years after 9/11, the United States has yet to confront the roots of terrorism, has waged more war than peace and has continually raised the stakes of international confrontation.

On 9/11, the world reacted with shock and horror, and sympathy for the victims. But it is important to bear in mind that for much of the world, there was a further reaction: "Welcome to the club."

For the first time in history, a Western power was subjected to an atrocity of the kind that is all too familiar elsewhere.

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[IrateCitizen]

1. Chomsky's studies of power relations are indispensable

While I may not agree wholeheartedly with all of the conclusions he draws vis-a-vis the foreign policy of the United States, I can say without hesitation that Chomsky was the person who most ably demonstrated to me the danger of power relations and those seeking to accumulate power. It is absolutely central to understand the way that power works in both domestic and foreign policy before we can go about changing it. Failing to do so is the equivalent of placing a band-aid on gangrene.

It's no wonder that you have to go to a Canadian or European paper to find an editorial from this brilliant man. His views are most dangerous to the establishment in the United States, simply because they lead one to question its viability.

[Resistance]

3. I don't think anyone is more illuminating than Noam Chomsky

in deciphering the code of American power-politics. The fact that he comes across as 'extreme' or 'radical' only proves to me how swamped we are in the myth, lies, and deception that are constantly forced upon us by the agenda-setting elites.

[Terran]

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